Hey. Sorry if you thought that this was another chapter but it's not. If you're from the future (meaning if there are chapters after this) then you can just skip to the next chapter. Unless you're interested in the story's history.

I kinda have some bad news for you guys.

As you all know I've been gone for the past few... I don't even know how long it's been. It doesn't matter, the point is I haven't updated the story in a really long fucking time. Although you guys probably aren't surprised at this point. This isn't even the first time I've done this. But rather than keep you guys in the dark for god knows how long I decided to just tell you outright what's going on.

First off, I want to say that chapter 10 was not the end of the story. I plan to continue much farther than that and I have lots of ideas on where to go from here. However, I can't really write the next chapters right now. And that's what I wanted to talk about.

I don't really go to a regular school. It's technically a public school but it doesn't act like one. The point is I have a lot of fucking work to do in school. I've always had a hard time balancing school and my free time and as you can probably tell I'm kinda failing to do that right now. But a couple things just happened at school that's gonna make the next few weeks very challenging and frustrating for me. And I don't think I'm gonna have time to write.

Writing this story has been a blast. I never thought I would have so much fun doing this. I might even be considering being an author a potential career path for me. However, even though it's been fun, it's also been really stressful. The main problem with writing this is that I was releasing chapters as I was writing them. As opposed to writing a couple chapters then releasing them one at a time. Because of this I always felt like I was behind. Whenever I uploaded a chapter I felt the need to release another one as soon as possible, even though I hadn't started writing one yet. I felt like I was letting you guys down by not releasing a chapter for a long period of time. And it got even worse once the depression kicked in.

A little while ago I was going through a lot of shit and I was really fucking depressed I didn't feel motivation to do anything and it really fucked up my day to day life. I'm still playing catch-up in school from that time. And now with everything that's happing in school right now, I'm afraid that I might fall back into it if I try to write this story while dealing with all of it.

Alright, this is getting too long.

The point is, you guys and the DDLC community, in general, have been so great to me and helped me through some rough shit. That's why I don't wanna give up on this story. That's why, instead of ending it, I'm gonna be taking a small hiatus.

I don't know how long I'll be gone. I can tell you that when summer comes along I'll have a lot more time to write so it probably won't last longer than that. And when I do come back I'm gonna write a bunch of chapters and release them one at a time like I should've been doing so it won't be so hectic.

I'm really sorry. I picked a bad time to write this story and I didn't think it would get so big so fast. And I was irresponsible with the whole way I went about writing this. And I was stupid to think that I could balance this with school. I'm sorry that you guys have to face the consequences of my mistakes.

I'm so sorry.

I'll be back as soon as I can.

I love you all. Thank you for dealing with all of my bullshit.

Till next time.